The Top 50 Movies Never Nominated For Best Picture at the Oscars

The Top 50 Movies Never Nominated For Best Picture at the Oscars

For the record, I agree that Eternal Sunshine was the most egregious oversight of this millennium, possibly of all time. It not only should have been nominated, but should have won, and is often picked as the best film of this millennium. I also agree that Almost Famous was another recent example of a film that probably should have been the Best Picture of its year, but was not even nominated.

Like the academy itself, the listmakers left most comedies off the list:

Duck Soup certainly should have been nominated in 1933 and probably should have won. The winner was the obscure, mediocre Cavalcade.

You could make a very persuasive case for a nomination for Airplane in 1980. It's a more memorable, more enduring film than Polanski's uninspiring Tess. In fact, Airplane is probably a better, more memorable film than that year's winner (Ordinary People), but you can't really make a best picture argument, because is certainly not more respected than the film which actually should have won, which is Raging Bull.

You could also debate nominations for enduring and original comedies like The Big Lebowski, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Groundhog Day, Borat, Shaun of the Dead, and There's Something About Mary. Maybe some others as well.